An aerosol capacity indicator that utilizes a novel and inexpensive
display that can be installed in the actuator of an aerosol can to
display the amount of product remaining therein. The novel accumulative
pressure indicator display is imbedded in the actuator which is attached
to the valve of an aerosol can and activated by pressure applied directly
by the user in the form of finger contact with the actuator. The total
amount of pressure applied to the indicator and transferred to the
aerosol valve by means of direct user contact both intermittent and
continuous renders a relevant reading equivalent to the amount of product
released from the aerosol can without any contact with the actual
dispensed material. Another embodiment of the invention utilizes the
pressure of the actual aerosol product as it passes through the actuator
making intermittent and continuous contact with the novel accumulative
pressure indicator display imbedded in the flow path of the aerosol
product in the actuator rendering an actual reading equivalent to the
amount of product released from the aerosol can.